Knopf, B. The German Energiewende and climate change mitigation - The only game in town or only a green dream? Talk at the Australian-German College of Climate and Energy Transitions, 30 April 2014, pdf

Projekte

The objectives of the Project are to facilitate information flows between Civil Society Organisations and research institutes working on low carbon energy scenarios and technologies. Moreover, we develop low carbon scenarios for Germany and France for 2050 with an ambitious greenhouse gas emission reduction target. Our vision is to provide input to the national, and European climate negotiations showing that ambitious greenhouse gas emission targets are not only necessary but also acceptable in an economic and social point of view.

Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Europe (ADAM) will lead to a better understanding of the trade-offs and conflicts that exist between adaptation and mitigation policies. It will support EU policy development in the next stage of the development of the Kyoto Protocol and will support the emergence of new adaptation strategies for Europe. Work Package M2 (Mitigation at the Global Level) is one of 7 work packages within ADAM and is led by Prof. Ottmar Edenhofer and Brigitte Knopf. It aims at assessing the mitigation options of post-2012 EU and global climate policies.